From being an avid Starcraft freak when I was younger to an avid poker player. I came in contact with Starcraft in 1998 whilst visiting my cousins in Huntington Beach in Ca. I don’t think I even played, I just watched him play against CPU’s. A year later, I was living in Germany at the time, a guy in my class was in a clan called ($). A couple of others from my school were in the same clan and I got to play a couple of matches with them. Some of you might recognize iD.GioM, he was one of the guys that went to my school in Munich. I played a couple of games at home, but nothing too serious. I moved back to Sweden in 2000-2001 and found out that a guy in my class also played Starcraft. So being the cocky guy, I decided to challenge him to a 1v1 and proceeded to get my ass kicked in a way that was very embarrassing. This guy was [xxx]Dxxfe or Txxx)1337(xxxx for the old sc (not bw) Swedish guys. He tought me a lot, and for a full year I played daily. My days consisted of my going to high school to a class where I did not fit in, I was “majoring” in science in high school, and the people and I were from two different worlds. I couldn’t give a shit about school. I however got together with my first girlfriend at the age of 15-16 and when I wasn’t playing I was either with her or talking to her on the phone. We still had a 56k modem back then, so the line was busy basically 24/7 since I was either talking to her or other friends or playing sc. I even managed to set up a HotlineSW server on there (if anyone remembers HotlineSW). I started getting pretty decent after a full year of just playing, and after the summer holidays my mother asked my if I wanted to change schools to a boarding school. All of my best friends were at a boarding school called Sigtuna in Sweden, so naturally I thought that was the place we were going to check out. Obviously it wasn’t, we went to the smallest of the “Three famous boarding schools” – which I had never heard about. I was pretty stoked whilst being up there, met a guy whom I partied with the previous summer, and a week went by and I started at the school moving into my new dorm called “The Volcano”.
The school had a wack 3mbit, which was like a dream come to compared to my 56k modem at home, but the only down fall was that they had a firewall so I could not continue playing Starcraft. I decided to become a StarcraftGamers (now GosuGamers) admin and writing news, I was at the WCG2004 for Sweden and I got to meet a bunch of BW people. At this boarding school, even though we had a firewall a bunch of people were playing CS at LAN. So I slowly started to play cs 2003-2004 but only on LAN. We even went to a LAN competition to compete against other teams, we however did not have the luxury of praccing against other teams. I didn’t get to play since I was pretty bad, but I wanted to play some starcraft whilst being there, naturally their firewall fucked the internet over, so I could only play LAN. I found a couple of guys who were playing and asked me if they wanted to play me. I played against the first guy and beat him, and then he and his friend played me 2v1 and I managed to beat them again. I found an oldschool Swedish player from the clan “Shaotung” and played him. We had an hour long game TvP on LT which I lost. It was fun playing a good guy again, and I remembered how much I used to like this game.
After 2004 when I graduated from high school I went into the army and I did not play any games for a full year. After getting dischared in may 2005, I took It easy that summer, and the fall of 2005 was when I started gaming again. A lot of people from LP were getting into poker, as was I. I remember playing shortstack NL50 and loosing. I didn’t take poker too seriously but I started getting into Counter-Strike. A good friend of mine whom I played with at boarding school had suddenly become pretty good and was playing with the Swedish elite scene. I was envious and vowed to become better than him. I played a lot, but I am a pretty slow learner, as I was with starcraft so I wasn’t getting better very quickly. Feb 2006 was the month that I moved upto Stockholm to work, a friend of mine from boarding school who is an old school Counter-Strike player moved with me and we became room mates. We played a lot of CS and some poker. He was better than me, and could grasp different aspects of the game, while I was trying to win every pot I entered. Our 2v2 skills were real good, and we’ve probably only lost about 5% of the games that we’ve played. I started working at an IT company doing SEO for Pokerlistings (one of our clients), and became friends with a Swedish poker player called Terrible Turk, and some other 5/10 regs that were working as editors. We started playing afterwork, and on fridays and I was getting my ass kicked by them. Nov 2006 I re-registered at LP and I didn’t want to post anything in the discussion forums because I was afraid of getting berated, I however went to the room next door at work to talk with these poker players about hands that I played, and I slowly progressed into a decent mtt player. My first big mtt win was Feb 2007 where I placed 3rd in the Daily Double on FTP for about $900. I thought I was on top of the world and started playing NL100, at $1500 I played NL200 and at $2000 I played NL400. I remember playing with ToTMidan at NL200, a week later I was busto and pissed off. I vowed myself to become a better mtt player and to only play mtts. I played in this team poker league with 6 other guys which we managed to win. After that I went on a mtt downswing til July where I had a decent month with another $1000 cash. I played on a Swedish site and was dominating HU sngs (low stakes). I even started playing some NL300 and NL700 live at the casino with moderate success. Homegames and mtts at work were going good. In June 2007 I changed positions from being a Site Manager at work (doing SEO for Pokerlistings) to becoming a Project Manager for an e-commerce project. After doing that for 6 months I got depressed for reasons only God knows, and I quit my job and moved back from Stockholm to Malmö where I hadn’t lived since before boarding school. Fall 2007 was good for poker, both mtt wise and cg wise. In December I gave cash games another shot, and deposited 1k and started playing NL50 on Crypto. Still had some tilt issues, but finished + overall. I was crushing mtts there, even though the structure sucked donkey balls. I withdrew the money I deposited, plus another 1k (roughly?). I finished 4th on Stars 20+2 mtt for $1.5k. I stopped playing cs competitively in November 2007 after almost daily gaming.
January 2008 – I was finally home in my home town and I started off the year by donking a 20+2 on ongame for $1.5k. Went on a downswing at NL50, and withdrew my money. I continued playing donkaments on stars but never really getting deep enough, I either bubbled or FT bubbled which was pretty aggrevating. Suddenly I started getting deep in everything I entered, and got some staking opportunities. And finally 2 weeks ago I got my biggest cash for 3.5k + running well at NL100 on ftp. The past months I started to see poker on a whole different level, my understanding of the game is well, and my tilt factor is gone. I haven’t tilted in the past 6 months. I feel my mtt game is very strong, and my cg is above average. I withdrew my roll after my win, because I wanted to party in Stockholm and do other stuff. I forgot to write that in Feb 2008 I started working for a market research company as a Supervisor in a call centre. So I get to deal with teenagers and being an office manager is always nice. I however quit my job a week ago, and I am on my 2 weeks notice (the company is pretty messed up I’m afraid). I however will continue working part time here just to take it easy, and I will start studying next fall in Lund or in Malmö. I will also donk a big mtt soon, I can feel it coming...
I forgot a lot of mtt scores, and I cant be bothered to look back and update where I missed them..
I hope you guys enjoyed the read, and I hope you run good!
So I'm turning 23 today, I took a couple days off work to travel to Stockholm. I've been playing some NL100 on ftp, I'll probably withdraw and deposit on another site, since I don't have rakeback on ftp.
Life is good, and Stockholm is going be sick, I'll try to update with some pics from Stockholm.
Oh and from the old sc days, )ls(honest and liquid.drone are turning 24 today if I remember correctly. - and George Clooney.
So the past 4 weeks or so, I've been constantly getting deep but never really all the way. Yesterday I managed to donk a 2nd place for $3.5k which was nice. Thanks alot fazi for helping me out (even though you fell asleep). Thanks to everyone else for the support too.
I managed to have probably the worst evening of my life. Some messed up stuff first that I dont want to go into. We took a cab from Malmö (in Sweden) over to Copenhagen (in Denmark), went to a nightclub there. I got pissed off one was fairly drunk so I decided to go back to Malmö. So I took a walk and somehow found the centralstation, I bought a package of ciggs and managed to loose my wallet, now I have 2 credit cards and 2 debit cards and basically my life in my wallet. So as soon as I notice that its gone I call a friend and ask him for all of the numbers so I can block my cards. Now, I'm alone at the train station with no money and no wallet. I somehow find $100 in my pocket, so I can pay for the train and the bus home, so the next train comes in like 30 mins, so I hop on and manage to fall asleep. I have this foreigner who is standing infront of me when I wake up in Malmö, im like wtf and proceed to get out. Then I remember, wait I didnt pay for the train (SHIP IT), I however look in my pocket for my money and it's not there anymore. So that guy stole money off of me. I however find like $10 in change for the bus, which is basically exactly what it costs. I take the bus home, and manage to wake up at the last station, the bus driver comes and wakes me up and asks me where I was supposed to get off, I tell him where, and he's like: "well I'm leaving in 20 mins so just fall asleep again". Suddenly he comes back and im like wtf? It turns out its been 30 minutes and Im at my bus stop. So I get off the bus and fall asleep in my bed at 10 am.
I wake up at 13am with 3 hours sleep feeling shit, and regretting the night before and everything I said to people, Im such a moron some times. So feeling like shit a friend asks if I wanna play cs, because they needed one more guy. So I'm like, im hungover and I dont really play any more but yeah ok. I end up playing fairly well for a change, and suddenly I get this phone call. So this danish guy found my wallet, and is like "dude your cards are safe, you can pick them up on monday". So im like, wow I run good. But all of my cards are blocked which is fucked up, and I was sort of pissed off because I really liked my wallet too (its a ralph lauren one).
So then fazi writes to me on msn wondering if I want to play any mtts, so I told him that yeah I'm going to play some. So he's like play the 300+22 6max in one hour and I'll stake you. I had slept like 3 hours and wasnt feeling very well, so I told him it would be -ev at this time. Some time goes and he's like there is a 100+9 starting in an hour, ill stake you if you want to play it. So I got itm, and shipped him back the 109.
Here are yesterdays mtts:
I am also looking for 200-300 on stars for ftp money - ill send first, most people will confirm that I am legit (PM for sources).
God, I haven’t updated in ages. So basically I shaved my head, I had pretty long hair before, so there is a difference:
I went over to visit my dad in Munich, Germany (No he’s not from Germany – he is ½ American ½ British). Which makes me ¼ American and ¼ British and ½ Swedish. Anyways it was alot of fun seeing my little brother and my twin sisters again, and ofcourse my dad and my stepmom too. My dad and I have alot of things in common, one of them is wine, so I brought a Margaux from 97 which we drank together – which was a decent wine, nothing very very fancy and I think it was around $100. I got a nice Bvlgari (read Bulgari) perfume for my stepmother, and some Wii sports rackets for my little brother.
Btw, if people want I can start blogging about various wines that I enjoy, and stuff to look for.
So I had a pretty strange night out in Munich. I went to meet a friend and his girlfriend (they are swedish, but his parents live in Munich – and we just happened to be in Munich at the same time). The two to the left
– the picture is taken from a swedish holiday called ”Valborg” when I celebrated in Uppsala, a univeristy city an hour away from Stockholm. It’s very big in Uppsala and in Lund, and the drinking is crazy. Its basically drinking 16 hours a day for like 3-4 days straight. This was from the ”Champagne” evening, where you buy Champagne and not really drink it but pour it over people. A really sick holiday in Sweden.
Anyways about the night out, so I went and met them and we started to drink some beer in an irish/australian pub in town. After a few beers I find myself needing to go the toilet, so I stand up and go over to the toilet, and outside of the toilet I see an old friend of mine whom I went to school with in Munich, so I say ”Hey – how are you doing”. He answers pretty casually ”alright”. So I was like, jeez what a dick. So I proceed to say it again, ”Hey man how are you”. Now he thinks I’m there to pick a fight with him, and I am a pretty big guy, and I was wearing an adidas England sweater/jacket. So I finally say, ”Alex, don’t you recognize me” – and then we started to drink together. So after a few hours my friends from Sweden go home, and I somehow meet this other swedish guy who is like 4-5 years older than me, and we went to the same school back in the days. So we’re standing in the stairs at the pub and out of the blue this swedish comes and says in swedish ”What – are you guys speaking swedish?? With a WTF expression on her face”. So we’re like yeah, and she says ”I’m here with two other swedish girls, come and sit with us”. So I’m like: ship it, and proceed to follow her to their table. My swedish friend seems to go to some other place and leaves me. So the girl in the stairs had a german boyfriends, but she was pretty ugly so it didnt really matter, and the other two were ok too. One was above decent and the other one decent (mind you – swedish standards). So I end up taking these girls to like 2-3 nightclubs and paying for their evening. So about $700 down for the evening I’m on my way back to my dads house, and I tell myself ”Chris, dont fall asleep like you always do, cos you got to go the airport soon”. 45 mins later I wake up on the train really satisfied when I look out of the window, because its my home town obviously. That happy feeling lasts for about 10 seconds when I realize I am at the last fucking station of my train line. So still fairly drunk and fairly pissed off of not shipping at least one of the girls (because of me having to leave for the airport), and being in a shithole town outside of Munich. I walk to the taxi that is closest and tell her to drive me home. My dad calls me and says that we have to leave for the airport in 30 mins. I explained the situation, and told him where I was and that I would be home in about 30 mins. I get home, go down to the cellar and get my bag, and leave for the airport with a cup of tea in the car.
This weekend was really sick too, I’ve been drunk since last Friday, and I woke uptoday pretty hungover, I missed out on the hangovers the other days since I started drinking as soon as I woke up. Ill update you guys about the weekend another day.
I think I’m getting into an iffy situation regarding the opposite sex, once again I’ll update more on that sistuation when I know more.
OPR so far in April:
Been getting deep in a bunch of mtt’s, and fazi is positive that I’m gonna donk a mtt soon. So let’s trust fazi and pray to lee.
$5.5 rebuy on stars 56/2406
$8.8 rebuy on stars 10/1143 (Bustout hand http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/418210)
$215 Sunday warmup 286/3342 (Bustout hand http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/419519)
$55 Daily 50 grand 35/1090
$Sat to warmup and nightly hundred – donk!
Since I used to play alot of HU’s sngs before, I played some NL HU, which was fun. Up on NL100 and NL200 HU, down on NL50 HU (LOL???????). Here are some hands:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/poker-forum/450092/Euro_LP_Meetup.html – Can people start planning? I will be there with my friends so its no biggy, but for the people that arent used to swedish partying (this is an experience). There are 600 people whom have confirmed, and 200 is the max number, obv my friends are prioritized, so start planning ASAP.
So I'm working in Copenhagen, and my office is just by the Casino, so thats pretty sweet. Ship it!
Anyways I went out and had dinner with sOah yesterday and that was fun meeting him, we went out and had a few drinks and I crashed the night at his place (thanks again Simon).
Today sOah and myself picked fazi up from the airport. I managed also to win the first propbet of the week against sOah (I run good) - ship it.
I'm looking foward to meeting the rest of the lpers coming down this week! It should be a good week.
locoo, Gummi, Hansen, Hansen Jr, luna_bluffgood and tomson (havent really spoken to the last two mentioned but should be good fun anyways). Oh and WiLLEt is also here so I'll try to meet up with him too. I'll try to update my blog with pics every day.
So I deposited 1k on betsson and I've been playing some mtt's and NL50. Its been going ok I guess. Life is good, im in my home town taking it easy. I still need to get my computer and some more stuff from my apartment in Stockholm.
I'll update my blog in the coming week with some more stuff regarding my personal life, and goals that I have set for 2008.
So I thought I would give you guys an update about my fall, what's been going on with my life, and poker related stuff. So I got back from a 2 week holiday in Chicago. September I traveled to Neuchâtel and went to a winefestival with a bunch of friends. I took a trip to Prague in November, and the last week I was in Chicago again.
So after feeling depressed for a bunch of reasons, I quit my job today and I'm moving back home to the south of Sweden, this is how they speak there:
I deposited some money onto crypto (parbet). Things started out good, and got a little rough, but shaped up again thanks to Stygg (thank you very much). I won a sat to a 13k grntd (50+5) tourney. I played it for about 30-45 mins and took the chiplead. I couldnt continue and had noone to ask, so I asked Stygg if he wanted to split it 50/50. He managed to donk a 4th place for $1500. I had to withdraw the money I put on my account cos I was leaving for the US. Anyways I got my rakeback whilst being in the US, I played a £20+2 on parbet and donked a 2nd place for like £230 and a played a short session of NL50. I have been beating NL50 with a decent winrate at parbet, and I am confident I can beat NL100 there too. I have been murdering tournies at crypto too, they suck. Stygg helped me withdraw the rest of my roll (thank you so much again) - and FUCK YOU NETELLER FOR BEING FUCKING INCOMPETENT PRICKS.
I went to my first concert (LOL?) and saw Muse too in Stockholm, pretty awesome concert. When I move back home I want to do a bunch of stuff, start taking poker more seriously (Got a goal to be at NL200 in feb), I gotta start working out, I want to get back into acting and into music again. Im gonna deposit $1k for NL50 after x-mas and murder it. Im gonna see what joboffers I get (last time I looked for a new job I got like 25 joboffers within like 2 weeks), and do some studying on the side, and maybe go and study an engineering degree next fall. Or maybe I'll be murdering NL50 and do a Saki and run good and beat NL400 within like 4 weeks (Ok you did NL100 to NL2000 in 4 months?).
I would like to say thank you to: Stygg (for and foremost for coaching me at NL50 too), Saki, hansen, and hansen jr for answering all my pokerquestions and being pretty cool cats.
Here's a song that I like:
Oh and Lee Jones please let me donk an mtt again <3
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